An Education

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Movie
German title An Education
Original title An Education
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Lone Scherfig
script Nick Hornby
production Finola Dwyer ,
Amanda Posey
music Paul Englishby
camera John de Borman
cut Barney Pilling
occupation

An Education is a British coming-of-age drama directed by Lone Scherfig from 2009 . Nick Hornby's screenplay is based on the autobiographical book of the same name by journalist Lynn Barber .

action

16-year-old Jenny lives in London in the early 1960s . The girl from the suburbs is encouraged by her conservative parents to have a good education in order to later study in Oxford . After a rehearsal for a school concert, she is picked up by the bon vivant David Goldman in the pouring rain at the bus stop. David, in his early thirties, brings Jenny home in his sports car, a Bristol 405 , and starts courting her. Together with him and his friend and business partner Danny as well as his girlfriend Helen, Jenny got to know the life of the upper class for the first time and was taken to jazz bars and concerts, to auctions and dog races.

The big age difference does not make Jenny's parents suspicious, because David always manages to inspire her with his knowledge of human nature, a feeling for situations, charm and a talent for speaking about himself and his plans, so that the parents even allow Jenny to spend a weekend alone with him. Here Jenny experiences that David and Danny finance their lifestyle through theft, among other things, and tries to part with David. However, he manages to convince Jenny of the correctness of what she is doing and wins her back.

On her seventeenth birthday, David succeeds in the stroke of genius - this time with Jenny's support - to invite her parents to go on a trip to Paris and still dissuade them from going along. There the two plan their first night together.

Back in London, David proposes marriage to her, which she discusses with her parents. Jenny's father immediately agrees, he now even sees his daughter's Oxford studies as superfluous because he believes she is being taken care of. Jenny becomes engaged to David and finishes her schooling. She questions the sense of a good education in a conversation with the school director and cornered her with David's way of reasoning.

In David's car, Jenny finds a pile of letters addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. Goldman, ”and realizes that he is already married. She demands of David to admit this to her parents himself and to separate from his wife, but David lets the deadline set by Jenny pass.

Jenny is now looking for David's wife, from whom she learns that he has already had lovers several times before her. The father's attempt to clarify the matter for Jenny is indignantly rejected by Jenny. She decides to catch up on the final year of school and goes to the headmistress of her old school, who rejects Jenny's request. Jenny then turns to her former English teacher, who is happy to help her catch up with her school leaving certificate. Eventually she got admission to study literature from Oxford.

Reviews

The reviews for the film were mostly positive, although some critics were negative about the film's anti-Semitic tendencies. So writes the Jewish Journal in its Film Review, An Education pack old anti-Semitic messages in a new, pretty packet ( "An Education" wraps old anti-Semitic messages in a pretty new package ). Even Maurice Lahde criticized on critic.de: Under the protection of this casualness, the film presents but then just about every anti-Semitic cliché that can be imagined .

Cinema magazine , on the other hand, rates the film as a brilliantly played emancipation drama that turns out to be a hymn to free spirit .

Julian Hanich wrote in the Berliner Tagesspiegel : Outstanding: Alfred Molina's petty-bourgeois father and Carey Mulligan as Jenny, who sometimes reminds of Audrey Hepburn with her forced dimple offensive. “An Education” is what the Americans call middlebrow: clever entertainment that uncompromisingly keeps the viewer away from any excessive demands.

The film website Moviepilot rates the film as an entertaining, recommendable cinema experience , but criticizes the end, which on the one hand is much too abrupt, so that it is difficult for the viewer to get involved. On the other hand, it turns the message of the film into negative.

background

Orlando Bloom was initially intended for the role of Danny , but he had to cancel due to scheduling difficulties and was replaced by Dominic Cooper . The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. In Germany it was shown for the first time during the Berlinale 2009 in the Berlinale Special series.

Awards and nominations

Leading actors Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard at the premiere of the film in New York City in October 2009.
price category Nominated Result
British Independent Film Awards Best British Independent Film - nomination
Best Director in a British Independent Film Lone Scherfig nomination
Best script Nick Hornby nomination
Best Actress in a British Independent Film Carey Mulligan Won
The best supporting actress Rosamund Pike nomination
Best supporting actor Alfred Molina nomination
Critics Choice Awards Best movie - nomination
Best main actress Carey Mulligan nomination
Best script Nick Hornby nomination
Best supporting actor Alfred Molina nomination
Golden Globe Awards 2010 Best Actress - Drama Carey Mulligan nomination
Independent Spirit Awards Best foreign film - Won
London Critics Circle Film Awards British film of the year - nomination
Best main actress Carey Mulligan nomination
Best British Actress Carey Mulligan Won
Best British Supporting Actress Rosamund Pike nomination
Best British Supporting Actress Olivia Williams nomination
Best British Supporting Actor Alfred Molina nomination
National Board of Review National Board of Review: Top Ten Films - Won
Best main actress Carey Mulligan Won
Satellite Awards Best movie - nomination
Best adapted script Nick Hornby nomination
Best director Lone Schrefig nomination
Best Actress - Drama Carey Mulligan nomination
Best supporting actor Alfred Molina nomination
Sundance Film Festival Audience Award - Best Foreign Feature Film - Won
Best Cinematography - Foreign Feature Film John De Borman Won
Jury Prize - Best Foreign Feature Film - nomination
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2010 Best main actress Carey Mulligan nomination
Best acting ensemble - nomination
British Academy Film Awards 2010 Best movie - nomination
Best British Film - nomination
Best director Lone Scherfig nomination
Best main actress Carey Mulligan Won
Best supporting actor Alfred Molina nomination
Best adapted script Nick Hornby nomination
Best costumes Odile Dicks-Mireaux nomination
Best mask Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou nomination
Academy Awards 2010 Best movie - nomination
Best main actress Carey Mulligan nomination
Best adapted script Nick Hornby nomination

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for An Education . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 531 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for An Education . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Irina Bragin: British film gives an education in anti-semitism ( Memento February 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Jewish Journal, December 1, 2009, accessed February 4, 2010.
  4. ↑ Maurice Lahde: An Education on critic.de, accessed on February 4, 2010.
  5. ↑ An Education on cinema.de
  6. ↑ Julian Hanich: Tor zur Welt , published in the Tagesspiegel on February 12, 2009, accessed on February 4, 2010.
  7. ↑ Sebastian Moitzheim: Coming-of-Age-Film with a weak end , published on moviepilot.de on February 17, 2010, accessed on February 17, 2010.
  8. ^ Message from March 18, 2008 on cinefacts.de , accessed on February 4, 2010.
  9. ↑ variety.com ( memento of July 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 12, 2012
  10. ↑ Nominations for the 2009 LA Times Satellite Award . Retrieved February 4, 2010.